Just in time for my panel ( Read more... )

If you haven't seen this already, you really need to. It's a brilliant episode that's not only funny, but also very poignant, raising a lot of really good points and putting the whole question of how much children are affected by video game violence into perspective ( Read more... )

So I went a little nuts with recording video of my favorite scenes from Zwei II, then actually SUBTITLING some of it, in preparation for my Falcom panel at Otakon this month... and figured I'd share here, where maybe one or two of you will care and actually bother watching these videos ( Read more... )

So as I'm sure some of you know, and others of you DON'T know (since it's not quite reached international news status just yet!), there's been quite a controversy as of late surrounding Japanese "eroge", or "erotic games". Namely, thanks to all the pinko puritans in the U.S., Japan is being forced to censor themselves now ( Read more... )

"You like tall ladies? We got a tall lady. She can throw you up in the air like a baby and on your way back down swing a giant prop fork at you and knock you into next week. You love that ( Read more... )

I know, I know, I rave about Falcom all the time... but this is just too cool not to mention ( Read more... )

One of the board members on the Falcom message board I frequent linked to a few of these fan-made songs on YouTube, and I have to admit, I'm absolutely blown away by how good they are. This is just... some random girl who took video game songs, arranged them, wrote beautiful English lyrics for them, then played and sang them, and I swear, you'd ( Read more... )

Ys I & II Chronicles trailer was just released. Is it weird that I'm actually getting kind of excited for this game, despite having played Ys I three times and Ys II twice already? (: I dunno if it's the new music, or if this trailer is just REALLY WELL PUT-TOGETHER, but I actually think I may give this game a fourth/third go come this July. (:

( Read more... )

... But seriously, tell Atlus U.S. you want Ys VII released in English! Apparently, they listen to fans who post in topics like this - that's how a lot of their more obscure releases came to be ( Read more... )

So I dunno if anyone's heard of this game yet or not, but Marvelous Entertainment's got a new PSP game in the works called "Yuusha 30" (Hero 30). It got a collective "huh?" from the internet when it was originally announced and billed as a "30-second RPG", with a lot of people fearing it would be a bad WarioWare clone of some sort... but I was ( Read more... )